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Gene

CROT

carnitine O-octanoyltransferase

Summary

Cytogenetic location
7q21.12
Coordinates
Chromosome 7: 87,345,664–87,399,794 (GRCh38)
Exons
18 exons across 54.1 kb
Protein
612 amino acids
Also known as
COT
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000331536.8NM_021151.4
Locus type
gene with protein product
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Reference genomeGRCh38

Positions on gene and variant pages follow this choice, in this browser.

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads CROT yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How CROT is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 7, with a bracket where CROT sits. CROT and 7 genes near it on chromosome 7, from 86,872,729 to 87,872,728.Chromosome 77q21.12p22.3p22.2p22.1p21.3p21.2p21.1p15.3p15.2p15.1p14.3p14.2p14.1p13p12.3p12.2p12.1p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.21q11.22q11.23q21.11q21.12q21.13q21.2q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q31.1q31.2q31.31q31.32q31.33q32.1q32.2q32.3q33q34q35q36.1q36.2q36.387 Mb87.2 Mb87.4 Mb87.6 Mb87.8 MbELAPOR2: 86,874,916–87,059,710, reverse strandELAPOR2DMTF1: 87,152,340–87,202,747, forward strandDMTF1TMEM243: 87,191,688–87,220,597, reverse strandTMEM243CROT: 87,345,664–87,399,794, forward strandCROTABCB4: 87,400,393–87,480,435, reverse strandABCB4ABCB1: 87,501,989–87,713,379, reverse strandABCB1RUNDC3B: 87,627,548–87,832,298, forward strandRUNDC3BSLC25A40: 87,833,561–87,876,404, reverse strandSLC25A40Diagram of CROT: 18 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 7Exon 1: 87,345,664–87,345,767, 104 basesExon 2: 87,346,340–87,346,430, 91 basesExon 3: 87,349,048–87,349,183, 136 basesExon 4: 87,359,206–87,359,330, 125 basesExon 5: 87,361,390–87,361,571, 182 basesExon 6: 87,361,728–87,361,852, 125 basesExon 7: 87,369,376–87,369,484, 109 basesExon 8: 87,375,632–87,375,725, 94 basesExon 9: 87,375,828–87,375,953, 126 basesExon 10: 87,377,349–87,377,450, 102 basesExon 11: 87,381,910–87,381,993, 84 basesExon 12: 87,382,074–87,382,181, 108 basesExon 13: 87,382,413–87,382,543, 131 basesExon 14: 87,391,589–87,391,712, 124 basesExon 15: 87,392,566–87,392,644, 79 basesExon 16: 87,392,730–87,392,823, 94 basesExon 17: 87,392,948–87,393,067, 120 basesExon 18: 87,398,524–87,399,794, 1,271 bases151015185′3′

Exons of the gene's MANE Select transcript (release v1.5), from NCBI and EMBL-EBI, on the GRCh38 reference genome.

Chromosome bands from UCSC's GRCh38 ideogram (2022-10-29).

Nearby genes from Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.

Exons make up 3.2 kb of the gene's 54.1 kb; 1,839 of those bases code for the protein.

Where this comes from

  • HGNC: the gene's symbol, name, other symbols and location.
  • MANE Select v1.5, from NCBI and EMBL-EBI: the transcript, its exons and coding sequence.

Cite this page

APA

Dante Labs. (n.d.). CROT gene: carnitine O-octanoyltransferase. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/crot

Vancouver

Dante Labs. CROT gene: carnitine O-octanoyltransferase [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/crot

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